ARCHIVED - Two injured in head-on collision in Mazarrón

The crash occurred on the RM-332 road between Mazarrón and Cañada Gallego

Two people were injured on Tuesday, one of them seriously, in a head-on collision between two cars on the RM-332 road between Mazarrón and Cañada Gallego, the old road which runs through the mountains between Mazarrón and Águilas.

The incident was reported to the 112 emergency services line at 19.12 and the Guardia Civil, firefighters and ambulance staff were dispatched to the scene immediately. Both of the injured were initially treated on the spot before the more seriously injured, a 35-year-old man, was taken to the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital in El Palmar, in the outskirts of Murcia. The other driver, a 46-year-old man, was taken for treatment to the Santa Lucía hospital in Cartagena.